biography
| name: |
Purkinje, Johannes (Evangelista)
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pronunciation:
[poorkinyay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1787–1869)
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| biography:
| Histologist and physiologist, born in Libochovice, NW Czech Republic. He graduated in 1818 with a thesis on vision, which gained him the friendship and support of Goethe. Helped by this, he became professor in Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia) and later at Prague. An early user of the improved compound microscope, he discovered a number of new and important microscopic anatomical structures, some of which are named after him. He was also a very early user of the microtome for cutting sections. |
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